Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don´t let nothin´ hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, so can you.

Everybody´s sayin´ that the Scatman stutters,
But doesn´t ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don´t know, I´m gonna tell you right now,
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo, I´m the Scatman.

Where´s the Scatman? I´m the Scatman.
Why should we be pleasin´ all the politician heathens?
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions,
And it only makes me crazy, and my heart like wood.

Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don´t let nothin´ hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you.
I´m the Scatman.

(Scatting by Scatman John.)
Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don´t let nothin´ hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you.

I´m the Scatman.
I hear you all ask ´bout the meaning of scat.
Well I´m the professor and all I can tell you is...
While you´re still sleepin´, the saints are still weepin´ 'cause
Things you call dead, haven´t yet had the chance to be born.
I´m the Scatman.

General Commentamong the craziness of the scatting, there are some well written lyrics in there.

Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if the could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions
And it only makes me crazy and my heart like wood

He isnt impressed with the state of the world, and the people who run it. Gotta wonder how he'd like the world these days...

While you're still sleepin' the saints are still weepin' cause
Things you call dead haven't yet had the chance to be born

Song MeaningWow.
Scatman was a stutterer but he turned it into scatting. He said his greatest weakness became his greatest asset. That explains so much about his song, literally.
The scat and the stutter are the same.
As a matter of fact, don't let nothing hold you back; if the Scatman can do it, so can you.

And a little more vague:
While you're sleeping the Angels are still weeping because things you call dead haven't had the chance yet to be born.
I think he didn't believe he'd ever have a singing career. He declared it dead from the start. But then he made scatting, and before that he hadn't even let his singing career have a chance to be born.

General CommentI'm in a grade 10/12 split in drama. Grade 12's write and direct scripts. The scripts are supposed to be realistic and dramatic. The scene I'm in is about a professional scatman who is retiring. LOL. This song is definitely going to be the extro.